The biggest publicity point of this film should be the young Canadian director Javier Dolan, who was born in 1989 and wrote, directed and starred in "I Killed My Mom". This is also his directorial career. The debut film won the 2009 Cannes Film Festival Director's Fortnight Art Film Award, SACD Award and Youth Vision Award, and was envious of the same age. I see some comments that this film may be influenced by Wong Kar Wai, there are indeed some clues, such as the rich and full tones of the whole film and the blurred and quiet photography style, but in the end it is not Wong Kar Wai-style muttering, these colors The video service is a mother and daughter who are constantly "split" with the passage of time. The mother who can talk for a long time in the young fashion has become a dead old woman who doesn't like everything about herself in the eyes of her son, and she doesn't even want to be in the car. Say something about yourself to your mother who is driving. To use Lacan's interpretation, it is the adolescent who finally sees the existence of the self and is eager to get rid of the fallacy of identifying his mother with himself as the same individual in infancy. Interpreted from the point of view of the Chinese people, it is just a threshold of rebellious period that you have to cross whether you are 16 years old or not.
The difference does not lie in the fact that Dolan Shuai's younger brother has half cynical hair and is gay, this is just the catalyst for the rift between mother and son, and all the psychological mechanisms are clearly explained at the beginning of the film, the black and white image is the narrative paragraph of the son taking a selfie , intertwined with the colorful and normal narrative passages, and slowly we learn that the son is not hating his mother to the death, but can't find the proper way to love. The movie-watching surprise that really makes the handsome talent shine comes from the unique picture expression when shooting the dialogue scene between the two people. Often, the mother and son are placed in a balanced mid-shot of the same picture, and then they are cut to each other. If the mother is on the left and the child is on the right, the mother picture The space on the left which is greater than or equal to one-half of the middle is the background, and the same is true for the son, but the left is replaced by the right. This form of composition, which is particularly prominent in the plain image, is the magnification of the lack of mother and son in the film: they are in the Dialogue, but they are always empty, the mother scolds the son's shortcomings here and there with concern, and the son stubbornly feels that the mother has never loved him. In addition, there are a large number of fixed double medium shots in the film, and the pictures are symmetrical and balanced. Huber sits at the same table with his teacher Julie and his classmates in the new boarding school. Ceremony-like calm, and obviously, under the calm, it is Hu Bell's urgent desire for independence, and it is the heart of an inch of grass under the strict words of the mother.
Seeing the title of the film seems to indicate an unexpected accident, but it didn't. "I Killed My Mom" did not come out as a climax, but was scattered in long shots to shoot the gunpowder-smelling conversation or the two people in the moving car. In the complete showdown in the kitchen, the son, who was awakened again and again, took the initiative to wash clothes and cook, and the son who was unable to control himself after taking drugs in the middle of the night and was emotionally broken down, and his mother slowly exited the camera. "Killing my mother" was reduced to a symbol of psychological suggestion. In the case of Yu Bell, the father was absent, so the father-killing complex was transferred to the mother. However, the mother-killing complex was dispelled by Yu Bell's "I love you" from the bottom of his heart. Gotta be clean. In an exclusive interview with INOCINEMA.com, Dolan admitted that the work originated from a short story he wrote in high school and wrote it based on his own experience.
That's how it was, and it's not just that Bell can ask the sentence "What if I die?" Naturally, thousands of parents will be silent but secretly answer "I will die too". The ending is a reminiscence of a colored childhood. Mother and son sit side by side. The curse of "senile dementia" is destined to be just a lie. Since everyone's memories are so cold, I really doubt whether Dolan's next work can keep it like this. sharp.
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